Freepers hear Ga. SC Chief Justice Leah Sears may be considered for SCOTUS

and don't go ballistic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247733/posts

:wtf:

LOL - what a dipshit

To the CENTER of Hillary? That's a hard one to top.

But this comment further down shows that at least one of them isn't totally frothing at the mouth:

"Ditto, and if you’ve read the news lately he appears to the Left as Bush-lite. I love it when they turn on their own."

Obama has hardly done the right thing every time in every Democrat's eyes (including mine, for sure) in his short
tenure, but he is hardly Bush Lite, which he has been labeled, increasingly, by some on the left, including DU.
Turning on him, especially so soon into his term, will not help us, even the most progressive among us, achieve
our goals. We can disagree and protest without cutting him up into Moo Shu Pork. We do not need President Gingrich
in 2012.

She is pro-choice and quite a person! Whatever positive they eek out from her background, they will be in for a shock if she is chosen....as she is nothing like what those who think they might like her describe her.


Sears was appointed by then-Mayor Andrew Young to the City of Atlanta Traffic Court in 1985. She then became a Superior Court judge in 1988 (the first African-American woman to hold that position in the state). She became a state Supreme Court justice in 1992.

Although historically a non-partisan election, the Georgia Republican Party and Georgia Christian Coalition targeted Sears for defeat in 2004. Based in large part on her record, she defeated her challenger with 62 percent of the vote.

Career History
Alston & Bird Attorneys at Law, Atlanta, GA, lawyer, 1980-1985
City Court of Atlanta, traffic court judge, 1985-1987
Fulton Superior Court, Atlanta, judge, 1988-1992
State Supreme Court of Georgia, justice, 1992-Present
Founder of Battered Women's Project of Columbus, GA

Organization Membership
National Association of Women's Judges
Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys(founding president)
Chair, Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism
Chair, Supreme Court Commission on Civil Justice
Chair, Supreme Court's Commission on Marriage, Children and Families
Georgia Tech Advisory Board
Links, Incorporated
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.


Awards
NAACP award for community service
2006 Trumpet Award-Law
2008 Honoree--Second Annual Wayne A. McCoy Memorial Historymaker's Program
2007-2009 Rosalynn Carter Fellow in Public Policy
Leadership Atlanta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Ward_Sears




2004-
Supreme Court Justice Leah Sears - who next year could become the high court's first female chief justice - was the biggest vote-getter of the night. She easily fended off challenger Grant Brantley, who was backed by Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue and religious conservatives, deflecting criticisms of her "activism" and allegations that she looked favorably on gay marriage.

"I think it's a good night for moderation in politics," said Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, who countered Perdue's involvement in the Supreme Court race with her support for Sears.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0721-02.htm

Christensen v. State
A constitutional challenge to the Georgia sodomy law, using the Pavesich case, met with defeat in 1996 in the case of Christensen v. State. The vote of the court to uphold the sodomy law was 5-2

Separate dissents were written by Justice Leah Sears, the state’s most consistent and eloquent defender of the dignity of Gay and Lesbian people, and by Justice Carol Huntstein.

Sears criticized Thompson’s opinion for stating that what is beyond the pale of majoritarian morality also is beyond the limits of constitutional protection. If we lived in an autocracy, the majority would be correct. But such is not the case.

Sears believed that, in "the long history of human governance," the advent of democracy marked a major moral advance because of its recognition of the inherent dignity of the individual and the worth of his private life. The underlying idea that the individual has a right to rule himself in both private and public affairs was a monumental challenge to the many authoritarian conceptions of government that preceded democracy. Quite consciously, then, this country’s original social contract with its citizens recognized and gave credence to our immense variety of personal tastes and values, and granted to each citizen the right to pursue his or her own conception of the good. Under the unique American democratic scheme, government was intended to play a relatively insignificant role in the individual’s pursuit of the good.
http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/georgia.htm

I think they got themselves so worked up over this that no one would be as bad as they were expecting.

They'd be screaming that rush was a closet liberal and had been for years.
They'd tell us he was the MOST LIBERAL PERSON IN AMERICA!!!!!

They're 'Chicken Little Reactionaries' - That's all they are.